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Unpacking sexually transmitted ethics

  • Written by: Lauren Rosewarne, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne

In a recent interview with an online publication, I used the term “sexually transmitted ethics”. I wasn’t referencing published work, and yet, while the phrase mightn’t have a scholarly history, I don’t believe the concept to be totally new.

The article I was quoted in, in part, questioned why audiences are polarised...

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A year since the SA blackout, who's winning the high-wattage power play?

  • Written by: Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester

It’s a year to the day since the entire state of South Australia was plunged into darkness. And what a year it’s been, for energy policy geeks and political tragics alike.

Parked at the western end of the eastern states’ electricity grid, South Australia has long been an outlier, in energy policy as well as geography. Over the...

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Gravitational Waves arrive in Europe

  • Written by: Matthew Bailes, ARC Laureate Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology., Swinburne University of Technology
imageA 3-kilometre-long arm of the Virgo detector at the European Gravitational Observatory. Source: EGO-Virgo - CC-BY-SA, CC BY-SA

The 2015 discovery by the US gravitational wave observatory LIGO of a distant chirp from the death-spiral of two black holes was a tremendous intellectual, engineering and scientific achievement.

Since then two other black...

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From tourism to terrorists, fast-moving space industries create new ethical challenges

  • Written by: Nikki Coleman, Military Space Bioethicist, UNSW
imageMedical data from space tourists will be fascinating, but is it ethical? Rick Guidice/NASA

It’s an exciting time to be working in the space sector - particularly with Australia’s recently-announced commitment to developing a space agency.

But with advances come new challenges. Similar to technologies such as digital communications and ro...

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  1. Young Australians are engaged in political issues, but unsure how democracy works
  2. 'Bones' McGhie, a cigarette and nostalgia for a greater game
  3. We may survive the Anthropocene, but need to avoid a radioactive 'Plutocene'
  4. What economics has to say about same-sex marriage
  5. Health Check: do we have to clean out our pores?
  6. Why Australia doesn't face sovereign risk in the gas markets
  7. Politics podcast: Rob Sitch on Utopia and political satire
  8. Giant marsupials once migrated across an Australian Ice Age landscape
  9. New Zealand's first-past-the-post 'hangover' could limit coalition options
  10. Does opera deserve its privileged status within arts funding?
  11. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: a new podcast from The Conversation
  12. Riverfire, sonic awe and the pornography of war
  13. We're investing heavily in urban greening, so how are our cities doing?
  14. Renewables will be cheaper than coal in the future. Here are the numbers
  15. Six common questions about eating carbs during pregnancy answered
  16. Curious Kids: How do we get allergic to food?
  17. Kia ora: how Māori borrowings shape New Zealand English
  18. Parents of teenage daughters more likely to divorce: study
  19. To avoid crisis, the gas market needs a steady steer, not an emergency swerve
  20. When a 'good death' was often painful: euthanasia through the ages
  21. How the government and One Nation may use media reforms to clip the ABC's wings
  22. Mounting housing stress underscores need for expert council to guide wayward policymaking
  23. Bad teeth? Here's when you can and can't blame your parents
  24. Turnbull loses 20th successive Newspoll, 54-46, but Yes to SSM support falls
  25. Yes case's SMS campaign was not invasive
  26. Sex and spirit: the many faces of ecstasy
  27. Don't be distracted by an SMS in the same-sex marriage survey debate
  28. Why US sports stars are taking a knee against Trump
  29. The rise of the corporate campus
  30. UK gene editing breakthrough could land an Aussie in jail for 15 years: here's why our laws need to catch up
  31. ATM fees may be gone but what will replace them?
  32. Collecting satellite data Australia wants: a new direction for Earth observation
  33. Cassie Sainsbury's trial by media
  34. How TV weather presenters can improve public understanding of climate change
  35. The insufferable film mother! revives tired hysterical stereotypes
  36. Cognitive ability plays a role in attitudes to equal rights for same-sex couples
  37. Baffled by baseload? Dumbfounded by dispatchables? Here's a glossary of the energy debate
  38. The economic reasons why Australia needs a stronger space industry
  39. Privatised land title offices can harness new technologies to provide a better service
  40. When life is coming to a close: three common myths about dying
  41. Waiting: rediscovering boredom in the age of the smartphone
  42. Mind-reading technology should not be used to solve crime
  43. Tax base eroded by backdoor deregulation of Australia's labour market and jump in foreign contract workers
  44. New law finally gives voice to the Yarra River's traditional owners
  45. Big gas shortage looming, but government stays hand on export controls
  46. Yes, Australia will have a space agency. What does this mean? Experts respond
  47. Introverts think they won't like being leaders but they are capable
  48. Courageous quests: Keats, art and refugees
  49. In historic cases, punishment alone is not always the best response to violent crime
  50. No, depression won't literally break your heart (but have a heart check anyway)

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